Saturday, September 22, 2012

Tyrker's Tale (The World's Edge Series) by Robin Ingle

One doesn’t often think about the Vikings, from tenth
century Iceland, so this is a great little story to spark an interest in an area
of study, abandoned since the fifth grade.

Tyrker is a thrall, which is a slave, and he is training to
be the guard of Eirik the Red’s son, Leif Ericson. It’s a story, in and of itself,
how Tyrker becomes a thrall for Eirik the Red.

In less than twenty pages, Robin Ingle, has managed to write
an exceptional, historical, piece of writing. So much occurs in this extremely
short story; we get to know Tyrker, we learn about Viking women, slaves and
non-slaves, and we are treated to an inside peek into the mind of Eirik the Red.

Tyrker is educating Eirik’s sons for combat, as he is a well-rounded
man of warfare. He is such an interesting character, with an intriguing love
life, and I am eager to read more about Tyrker, in the future.

Tyrker's Tale (The
World's Edge Series), is my introduction to Robin Ingle. As a reader of
historical fiction, I am thrilled to have stumbled across this author, and I’ll
be looking for more of her work.